ComedyPilot
Secret Lemonade Drinker
- Location
- The Kingdom of Yorkshire
Your avatar looks like a bloke who rode on the JOG to LE conference bike world record between Morpeth and Darlington.
Sorry if it wasn't you - mistaken ID
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Your avatar looks like a bloke who rode on the JOG to LE conference bike world record between Morpeth and Darlington.
Sorry if it wasn't you - mistaken ID
addictfreak
Guru
- Location
- Boldon, Tyne and Wear
Gerry Attrick
Lincolnshire Mountain Rescue Consultant
I think you should let CC members be the judges of that. I'll start. I'll be round at yours for tea and cake tomorrow.I'm good at baking. Maybe you're on to something.
ComedyPilot
Secret Lemonade Drinker
- Location
- The Kingdom of Yorkshire
I think you should let CC members be the judges of that. I'll start. I'll be round at yours for tea and cake tomorrow.
Check out Gerry, the smooth talker......?
Gerry Attrick
Lincolnshire Mountain Rescue Consultant
No chance ... but I am a cake-monster!
- Location
- The TerrorVortex
Left college after messing up my A-Levels.
Did an Electronic engineering training course, got a job calibrating test gear. Moved around a few different companies, always for a bit more money each time. Got made redundant twice. Did an OU degree along the way. Tried IT support, got a few qualifications in that but didn't like it much.
Got back into electronic engineering, and now I work on the instrumentation for testing large carbon structures.
Pay's not bad, I work with a great bunch of blokes, and work is a mile away from my house.
Did an Electronic engineering training course, got a job calibrating test gear. Moved around a few different companies, always for a bit more money each time. Got made redundant twice. Did an OU degree along the way. Tried IT support, got a few qualifications in that but didn't like it much.
Got back into electronic engineering, and now I work on the instrumentation for testing large carbon structures.
Pay's not bad, I work with a great bunch of blokes, and work is a mile away from my house.
GordonB
Guru
- Location
- Somewhere just north of Ipswich
Pharmaceutical research technician
Medical student
Insurance salesman (for at least 3 days!)
Crematorium manager
Hearse driver
School lab tech
Environmental health officer
Acoustics consultant
Not exactly an obvious progression, but I now love what I do for a living, travel extensively, sometimes working overseas, earn a decent living and can still go cycling more or less when I want to. Don't intend to retire, I'll just become even pickier about the type of work I take on.
Gordon
Medical student
Insurance salesman (for at least 3 days!)
Crematorium manager
Hearse driver
School lab tech
Environmental health officer
Acoustics consultant
Not exactly an obvious progression, but I now love what I do for a living, travel extensively, sometimes working overseas, earn a decent living and can still go cycling more or less when I want to. Don't intend to retire, I'll just become even pickier about the type of work I take on.
Gordon
Bromptonaut
Rohan Man
- Location
- Bugbrooke UK
Was taking A levels in 1978 with a view to a degree in business studies or similar and a career in 'management'. Applied for a few jobs as insurance and fluked an offer for direct entry to Executive Officer grade in the Civil Service.
Times then a bit like now and with A levels a tad under par I decided a job in the hand was worth two in the bush. Got posted to the Lord Chancellors' Dept and allocated to a provincial County Court. Bit of an epic fail. I was an 18yr old, wet behind the years & in a job most folks toiled ten years in clerical grades to attain. My immaturity and the lack of senior support meant I couldn't last there and in today's conditions I'd have been out on my arse.
Fortunately those times were more enlightened and I was offered a role in a London office. Technical stuff in a specialist environment suited me to the ground and although I've dipped my toes into management since I'm much better with things and concepts than people!! Still there 32 years on. The current cull of Quangos may get me but I'm old enough for redundancy to mean early pension and I could just survive on that.
Times then a bit like now and with A levels a tad under par I decided a job in the hand was worth two in the bush. Got posted to the Lord Chancellors' Dept and allocated to a provincial County Court. Bit of an epic fail. I was an 18yr old, wet behind the years & in a job most folks toiled ten years in clerical grades to attain. My immaturity and the lack of senior support meant I couldn't last there and in today's conditions I'd have been out on my arse.
Fortunately those times were more enlightened and I was offered a role in a London office. Technical stuff in a specialist environment suited me to the ground and although I've dipped my toes into management since I'm much better with things and concepts than people!! Still there 32 years on. The current cull of Quangos may get me but I'm old enough for redundancy to mean early pension and I could just survive on that.
i work for National Grid. been there 12 years. like everyone else who works there i only joined for six months and been held against my will ever since
Does the Work Experience lad have to "press the button" when Corrie comes on?
slugonabike
New Member
- Location
- Bournemouth
Left school with 8 O levels and went into orthopaedic nursing at 17 (1975). The plan was to spend 20 months doing the (pre-reg) orthopaedic cert and then start physio training. After 20 months of earning, I didn't want to go back to being an unpaid student so stayed in nursing to do my general training.
Moved to Dorset and into primary care in 1981 to be with my, then, boyfriend. Stayed in the job for 9 years during which time I dumped boyfriend, met and married Mr S and had my son. I went back to work part-time after having SlugBoy but wasn't getting much job satisfaction.
Felt it was time to move on so changed to my current practice in 1990. Since then I have increased my hours and taken on more responsibility. I was lucky enough to be offered the chance to do my Nurse Practitioner degree at our local uni at no cost to myself, I graduated a few years ago.
I'm now on sick-leave having bu$$ered my back, had surgery last year which has not been effective, so I'm looking at my options and wondering whether I will be able to return to my job or will take medical retirement.
Moved to Dorset and into primary care in 1981 to be with my, then, boyfriend. Stayed in the job for 9 years during which time I dumped boyfriend, met and married Mr S and had my son. I went back to work part-time after having SlugBoy but wasn't getting much job satisfaction.
Felt it was time to move on so changed to my current practice in 1990. Since then I have increased my hours and taken on more responsibility. I was lucky enough to be offered the chance to do my Nurse Practitioner degree at our local uni at no cost to myself, I graduated a few years ago.
I'm now on sick-leave having bu$$ered my back, had surgery last year which has not been effective, so I'm looking at my options and wondering whether I will be able to return to my job or will take medical retirement.
threebikesmcginty
Corn Fed Hick...
- Location
- ...on the slake
Are you the stig?
Or maybe batman?
Becs
Veteran
- Location
- Old Hatfield (it's nice honest!)
Horse vet and PhD student
6 years at uni, 2 degrees, huge debt, sold my soul as an intern in the USA, worked as a "normal vet" in Buckinghamshire before heading off back into academia to complete a PhD and specialist clinical training.
Worked my arse off, relationships suffered, not sure I'd do it again but going to make the most of it!
6 years at uni, 2 degrees, huge debt, sold my soul as an intern in the USA, worked as a "normal vet" in Buckinghamshire before heading off back into academia to complete a PhD and specialist clinical training.
Worked my arse off, relationships suffered, not sure I'd do it again but going to make the most of it!
krushavik
New Member
- Location
- Warrington Cheshire.
I got retired through having a good job and one that loved doing. Now I love being retired, and the job gave me a good pension.
